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Mayor Dave Bing is expected to announce on Friday a number of cuts to the city's parks and recreation budget -- including the closure of city parks -- in the aftermath of the City Council's decision this week not to approve a deal for Michigan to lease Belle Isle and run it as a state park.

That decision -- the council couldn't muster enough support to take a full up-or-down vote on the proposed lease -- prompted Gov. Rick Snyder to remove the deal from the table. Snyder took with him an offer to wipe $6 million in annual maintenance and operations costs for Belle Isle off the city's books -- money the Bing administration said would have helped Detroit pay for other crucial city services and other city parks.

Bing administration officials were said to be laying out plans to close parks and reduce recreation services in response, but mayoral aides said they would not discuss details in advance of Friday’s news conference. A statement from his office said only that the news briefing will discuss the impact of the council's decision on the Belle Isle agreement.

The deal would have allowed the state to lease Belle Isle for 30 years, with two optional 30-year renewals, and let the Department of Natural Resources operate it as a state park. The state pledged to spend millions on upgrades -- repairs the city can't afford on its own -- but did not spell out specifically how much money it would commit.

The city and the state would have been able to opt out of the deal at 10-year intervals if either side no longer supported the arrangement.

Critics said the deal amounted to a state takeover with too few guarantees, and they questioned whether the state might leave Detroit on the hook for bond debt Michigan would initially take on for major upgrades.

The deal would have required motorists to buy $11-per-year state parks passports to enter the island, a first-ever entry free for the park. The pass would have been valid at all of the state’s parks.

The 985-acre island, long considered among the nation's premier public parks, has suffered from decades of neglect as Detroit's parks and recreation funding dwindled and city officials could not agree on implementing a city-controlled entrance fee.